UIC Library News

Official photographs of the Enchanted Island, the Sky Ride Trolley, the House of Tomorrow, and infamous fan dancer Sally Rand soon will be available in a digital collection, Images of Progress: Views of A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933-1934.
The UIC Library’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives received a $20,000 grant to digitize […]

The UIC community now has access to a powerful and comprehensive database of business, economic, and demographic information for all areas of the world. Economist Intelligence databases continually update data and analyses of global industries, demographics, consumption, average wages, income levels, market size, infrastructure, and business environments. Researchers can manipulate, display, graph, […]

The Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC) opened its east campus Instructional Technology Lab (ITL-East) in the Richard J. Daley Library at the beginning of the spring 2008 semester. ITL-East is located at the south end of the first floor of the Daley Library in room 1-310.
The services of ITL-East are available to UIC […]

The UIC Library will introduce a new interlibrary loan service in January 2008. The name of the existing interlibrary loan system–MyILL@UIC–will remain the same, but users will notice significant improvements.
After completing a brief online registration form, interlibrary loan users at all five UIC sites will be able to create new requests, view outstanding requests and […]

The UIC Library’s Special Collections department has launched an online interpretive exhibit about how the residents of seven Chicago settlement houses worked to improve the lives of people living in poor neighborhoods during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The exhibit includes 100 photographs and documents from Henry Booth House, Bethlehem-Howell Neighborhood Center, Off-The-Street Club, Marcy […]

The UIC Library will have shortened hours from December 22, 2007 through January 1, 2008. Please see the Hours and Locations page for information about specific library locations.

The papers and research files of urban sociologist Pierre de Vise are available in University Archives.
The late researcher was known for declaring Chicago to be America’s most segregated city in his 1967 demographic study, Chicago’s Widening Color Gap. de Vise, who died in 2004, earned a doctorate degree in public policy analysis at UIC […]

We are pleased to announce that the Library is expanding access to ISI Web of Science, giving UIC users the ability to search from 1975 to present. This purchase adds 12 more years (1975-1986) of access to retrospective literature, in the Science Citation Index, Art & Humanities Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. […]

The Special Collections Department in the Richard J. Daley Library will expand its hours starting Nov. 10. The department will be open the second Saturday of each month from 10 am – 2 pm. Researchers who want to use the collections during an open Saturday are encouraged to make appointments.

In recent years, libraries have taken on a range of roles and responsibilities in the provision of e-government services and resources. John Carlo Bertot, professor and associate director of the Information Use Management and Policy Institute at Florida State University, addresses this topic in the UIC Library’s Nakata Lecture on October 25. Bertot’s lecture, Libraries […]